29 May 2017
8c by Katrin Grรผndler (38)
Katrin Grรผndler (born Sedlmayer) has done her second 8c, Roof Warrior in Frankenjura and her story is quite interesting. (c) moritz perwitschky
"I started climbing when I was 10 years old. In these years my focus was on alpine routes (โFleichbank Ostwand, Wilder Kaiserโ at the age of 13). Then I was fascinated by on sight climbing and competition-climbing (greatest success European Champion 2000 in Munich and Weltcup Winner in Lecco 2002). During the following years climbing got somewhat less important because I finished studying and had two children.
Bit by bit climbing became again more and more important to me, and I was lucky to meet some strong young climbers who motivated me to try harder routes.
So I was able to climb one 8c two years ago and now I scored again. To gain success I spent about 10 days on โRoof Warriorโ (8c), Universum, Frankenjura. The climbing is very athletical and needs a lot of endurance. You are starting with a vertical wall, followed by an impressive roof. I really enjoyed this kind of climbing, because itยดs my style."
Due to clever and well adapted training and above all, great motivation I am still able, in spite of my age, to climb quite hard routes. Maybe I could have climbed harder routes at the age of twenty but unfortunately I never tried."
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